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These fruits contain the same nutritious elements as the common fruits without the high fructose levels & contribute as much to your diet: eggplant, egg-fruit, bell pepper, hot pepper, avocado, red pepper, cucumber, tomato and zuchini.

Fructose is the most lipogenic (fat producing) carb. Table sugar is also a refined product & not much better. Sucrose (table sugar) is made of 50% fructose and 50% glucose, whereas high-fructose corn syrup is suppose to be 55% fructose, 45% glucose, but sodas analyzed had as much as 65% fructose.

Researchers from the University of California, Davis compared glucose & fructose consumption among 32 overweight people & found they resulted in very different health changes.

After drinking either a fructose- or glucose-sweetened beverage that made up 25 percent of their daily calories for 12 weeks, both groups gained a similar amount of weight. However, those drinking the fructose-sweetened beverage experienced an array of other unhealthy effects, including:

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An increase in visceral fat, the kind that embeds itself between tissues in organs
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Less sensitivity to insulin, one of the first signs of diabetes
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Increased fat production in the liver
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Elevated LDL (bad) cholesterol
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Increased levels of triglycerides

People who drank the glucose-sweetened beverage, meanwhile, experienced no such changes.

"This suggests that in the same way that not all fats are the same, not all dietary carbohydrates are the same either," Peter Havel, professor of nutrition at the University of California Davis

However, after a few weeks of eating fruit for breakfast I was stunned to discover my fasting triglycerides had skyrocketed from below 100 to nearly 3,000 (yes that is not a typo)! Clearly this diet was NOT right for me and was rapidly doing some serious damage to my body.

You shouldn’t keep saturated fats low, the more the better. 50% of dietary fats need to be saturated to make vitamins & minerals bioavailable. Unsaturated fats don’t pass through you like fiber – I don’t know where you got that. All fats are utilized by the body structure, none is excreted.

I recommend a diet that has 55% saturated fats, 40% monounsaturated fats & 5% polyunsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are fine *in whole food sources* but when they are separated from a whole food, it exposes the fragile oils to air & causes them to quickly oxidize (go rancid). I do NOT recommend polyunsaturated vegetable oils, oxidized oil creates free radical damage in the body. There is a need to balance your Omega 6 fatty acids with Omega 3.

Fats make up every cell in the body & are used by the glands & for hormone production. They are also used as fuel in the body when glucose isn’t being used.

You can’t get fat on a diet of fats, it is impossible. The best way to lose body fat is a diet that is >80% dietary fats.

No one knows exactly how the body works & can only offer theories & I do not know if dietary fats effect body fat in the presence of carbohydrates. Without carbs, fats flow in & out of fat cells much like glucose flows in & out of glycogen stores. I do know fructose creates triglycerides that "trap" fat in fat cells but I don’t know if the same effect happens with starches.

Dietary cholesterol has no negative effect on the body. Cholesterol is necessary & healthy.

Refined salt may not be healthy, but UNrefined salt is vital to good health.

Salt and water work together to do important work in your body, including stimulating your metabolism, helping you detoxify, and making sure your nerves, hormones and immune system function properly. Adequate supplementation alleviates fatigue, headaches, dizziness or constipation caused by dehydration.

sugar-don’t completely avoid, just don’t eat foods rich in it
carbs-you need carbs to function but you NEED low carb foods to lose weight because if the carbs aren’t used by the body, they’re turned it 7 calories worth of fat
fat-AVOID. it can be burned for fuel but directly adds to body fat
sodium-don’t worry about it. it doesn’t create any fat tissue
fiber-it can’t create fat tissue but helps improve your internal systems
protein-protein is converted into fat if you don’t burn it. but it is a much healthier source of energy than fat or carbs. you should eat enough to maintain your muscle structure, but not too much. 1 gram contains 4 calories, whereas a gram of carbs has 7 calories
cholesterol-you can’t avoid it completely. you need it to function properly. it’s only a problem if you eat an excessive amount, or if you eat none at all/a very small amount

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